I like Elisabeth, one of The View's co-hosts, despite her support for the republican cause no matter the candidate, and I admire her guts -- she's outnumbered on the show by democrats.
BUT she takes on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asserting that the "surge worked" and Pelosi explains the purpose of the surge. And in the context of the purpose of the surge, to make political gains, it did not work.
The sorry fact is that this is all McCain has to hang his hat on.